Health & Beauty

In celebration of being awarded flagship status, the Oasis store in Exeter's Princesshay hosted a jaunty vintage-style 'tea' party this evening (Thursday 24 October).

The honour, which is only bestowed on a handful of stores such as Bristol Cribbs Causeway, is testament to the Exeter store's successful management team and will mean that customers will have access to a greatly increased range of Oasis products, including day and evening wear, shoes, jewellery and accessories. Feature window displays will be designed and created for the store by a team of specialist visual...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a novel genetic cause of severe obesity which, although relatively rare, demonstrates for the first time that genes can reduce basal metabolic rate - how the body burns calories.

Previous studies (performed by David Powell and colleagues at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals in Texas) demonstrated that when the gene KSR2 (Kinase Suppressor of Ras 2) was deleted in mice, the animals became severely obese. As a result of this research, Professor Sadaf Farooqi from the University of Cambridge's Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic...

In this article I would like to discuss some points to consider for females when training with weights / resistance. Some issues like ‘bulking up’, ‘getting manly’, ‘injuries’, ‘excess protein’ are all topics of interest and concern. I will try to tackle a few of these issues and more here...

Bulking up / hypertrophy: It is unlikely that a hormonally normal female will add a lot of bulky muscle with weight training. The normal physiological change is to add some density and strength but normally not bulky muscle, depending on the training method. It is difficult enough for males to...

Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has joined leading UK charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s call to make the issue of access to drugs a top priority, and help put breast cancer back on the agenda. Neil Parish joined more than 70 MPs at a reception hosted by Breakthrough Breast Cancer on Tuesday 8 October at the House of Commons. There, the charity called on the Government to bring about a new focus on breast cancer, with a priority of introducing an equitable system through which effective new treatments are routinely made available to patients. Earlier this year Breakthrough...